Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 4 authors, 2018-07-31

Re: [RFC PATCH ghak90 (was ghak32) V3 02/10] audit: log container info of syscalls

From: Richard Guy Briggs <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-23 15:11:48
Also in: cgroups, linux-fsdevel, lkml, netdev

On 2018-07-23 09:19, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Sunday, July 22, 2018 4:55:10 PM EDT Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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On 2018-07-22 09:32, Steve Grubb wrote:
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On Saturday, July 21, 2018 4:29:30 PM EDT Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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+ * audit_log_contid - report container info
+ * @tsk: task to be recorded
+ * @context: task or local context for record
+ * @op: contid string description
+ */
+int audit_log_contid(struct task_struct *tsk,
+                            struct audit_context *context, char
*op)
+{
+       struct audit_buffer *ab;
+
+       if (!audit_contid_set(tsk))
+               return 0;
+       /* Generate AUDIT_CONTAINER record with container ID */
+       ab = audit_log_start(context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_CONTAINER);
+       if (!ab)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       audit_log_format(ab, "op=%s contid=%llu",
+                        op, audit_get_contid(tsk));
Can you explain your reason for including an "op" field in this
record
type?  I've been looking at the rest of the patches in this patchset
and it seems to be used more as an indicator of the record's
generating context rather than any sort of audit container ID
operation.
"action" might work, but that's netfilter and numeric... "kind"?
Nothing else really seems to fit from a field name, type or lack of
searchability perspective.

Steve, do you have an opinion?
We only have 1 sample event where we have op=task. What are the other
possible values?
For the AUDIT_CONTAINER record we have op= "task", "target" (from the
ptrace and signals patch), "tty".

For the AUDIT_CONTAINER_ID record we have "op=set".
Since the purpose of this record is to log the container id, I think that is 
all that is needed. We can get the context from the other records in the 
event. I'd suggest dropping the "op" field.
Ok, the information above it for two different audit container
identifier records.  Which one should drop the "op=" field?  Both?  Or
just the AUDIT_CONTAINER record?  The AUDIT_CONTAINER_ID record (which
might be renamed) could use it to distinguish a "set" record from a
dropped audit container identifier that is no longer registered by any
task or namespace.
-Steve
- RGB

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